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dollar diplomacy
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌdɒl.ə dɪˈpləʊ.mə.si/ us /ˌdɑː.lɚ dɪˈploʊ.mə.si/
the use of a country's financial power to increase its influence over other countries, often by offering to lend money in a way that also benefits the country's own business interests:
Dollar diplomacy has helped the islands to build airports, roads, and schools.
Both countries accused each other of using dollar diplomacy to win support at the United Nations.
He suggested the country could advance its foreign policy aims better if it offered some military contributions and not just dollar diplomacy.
Under President William Taft, dollar diplomacy was intended to make American investors prosper, as well as people in foreign lands.
He writes that dollar diplomacy played a major role in persuading Britain and other European colonial powers to relinquish their imperial interests.
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